--- In [email protected], "geezerfreak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Hey Geezer, > > > > Check out this site for the guy who built my new cigar box guitar! > > The thing is so Delta and primitive I am loving life. Tuned to > > open G > > on 4 strings. This is the old, old school! > > http://homepage.mac.com/bjagitsch/PhotoAlbum63.html > > If you scroll down you can see a video of him playing one. > > Whoa Curtis! Those things look and sound unholy as hell! That's > not a sound you're gonna find at any NAAM show. > > Some time back I worked on several sessions w/ Ry Cooder. I asked > if there was anything he needed...he said " 20 gallon galvanized > trash can". I said, OK fine figuring he was planning on generating > a lot of trash. (With Ry you never know.) We got the trash can, he > shoved it up against his amp, taped down the handles, took the mics > we had carefully placed on the amp, and pointed them about 2 inches > from the center of the (now lying on its side) trash can and began > to play. I'm here to tell you it was a ragged ass thing of beauty, > like a harmongus resonator. > > No digital effect can make that sound and none can match those > cigar box jobbies either!
Great story, Geez. But now you've got me hook, line and sinker. I *have* to know what album that sound is on, and which cut(s). And Curtis, thanks very much for posting this. Can you imagine trying to find neat birthday gifts for my next-door neighbor? Well, next year is a done deal.
